If you’ve not read it yet, here is my first post about Quest/ActiveLit. I’ve just sat down for about an hour and a half to try and create my first room in ActiveLit. I’m not going to lie, it was quite hard work, but it feels like the next room will be a lot easierContinue reading “Quest – Text-based adventure game (creating a room)”
Monthly Archives: July 2014
Quest – Text based adventure games (intro)
When we were looking at the new curriculum last year, we were drawn to the idea of looking at text based adventure games and it was penciled in to our Year 6 curriculum. From September I’m the one who has to find a way to introduce and teach this topic so I was really pleasedContinue reading “Quest – Text based adventure games (intro)”
Raspberry Pi – Switching it on
Provided you have everything plugged in correctly, the first time you login a screen like this will pop up (don’t worry, after the first time you won’t see this again unless you want to): If, like me, you’re a complete novice to the pi, simply use arrow keys to move down to ‘finish’ and pressContinue reading “Raspberry Pi – Switching it on”
Raspberry Pi – basic setup
When you first invest in a Raspberry Pi, there are a few things you need to know: Firstly, if you buy a Pi, you are just buying the little circuit board bit, which looks a bit like this: Most people who already own a Raspberry Pi will probably have the first of these pictures, whichContinue reading “Raspberry Pi – basic setup”
The Raspberry Pi
The reason I started writing this blog was down to the lovely people at the Raspberry Pi Foundation who kindly offered two days of free training. I was so inspired by everything I learned that I was eager to pass on my knowledge. I know that the Pi pages are going to take up aContinue reading “The Raspberry Pi”
Codecademy
My boyfriend and I discovered Codecademy over Christmas 2013 – neither of can remember how we first found out about, but we started off competing against each other to see who could get the furthest in Python. When I started teaching coding to years 3 and 4 in January 2014 and started to run my Code ClubContinue reading “Codecademy”
Code Club
Last Autumn my school was approached by a parent who worked for one of the big investment banks. He came to us as a representative of CAS, which, at the time, was an organisation I’d never heard of. Computing At School had been one of the many groups petitioning the government for a change inContinue reading “Code Club”
Scratch
Before I start, I should point out that Scratch is completely free and can be found here: http://scratch.mit.edu/ I was first asked to use Scratch about a year ago and I had no idea what I was letting myself in for. I hastily scrabbled around the Internet and found a couple of videos on theContinue reading “Scratch”
Digital Literacy vs Computing vs ICT
So, instead of ICT (Information and Communication Technology) or Microsoft Office for beginners, as most of us knew it as, we have this new beast called Computing and Digital Literacy. The basic idea is that Computing should count as a science and be given the same emphasis and importance whereas Digital Literacy should be ‘pickedContinue reading “Digital Literacy vs Computing vs ICT”
Cat Lamin 